The Blind Colt (80th Anniversary Edition)
Title | The Blind Colt (80th Anniversary Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Glen Rounds |
Publisher | Holiday House |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2021-01-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0823443531 |
Can a young blind horse survive in the badlands of Montana? Find out in this beautiful new edition of a classic American tale. Now celebrating its 80th anniversary with beautifully redesigned new edition featuring lots of extras, The Blind Colt is a timeless tale of survival and friendship. This classic volume now features an appreciation by Matt Myers, a piece from author Glen Rounds on his inspiration for the story, and facts and resources about wild mustangs today. In the badlands, where the ground is soft but the slopes are steep and the vegetation is scarce, it can be difficult for a wild horse to survive. Even more so if that horse is blind. But this young colt has his strong mare of a mother looking out for him, and his other senses help him smell the friendly prairie dogs, feel for rough terrain, and hear whenever wolves draw near-- sometimes well before anyone else in his herd. That's not all. A boy named Whitey, about ten years old, and his ranch-owning Uncle Torwal watch from the sidelines whenever the colt and his herd pass through the plains near their home. Whitey, especially, hopes the young colt grows strong, just as he hopes they might get a chance to meet someday. And when a rough winter starts to settle in, he might just get his wish. This classic of children's literature in the tradition of War Horse, The Black Stallion, and Misty of Chincoteague comes from one of America's master storytellers. Glen Rounds grew up in the Dakota badlands, and drew from details from his own life on a ranch to depict one little colt's struggle to make it through the winter.
Stolen Pony
Title | Stolen Pony PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1948 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
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When horse thieves observe that a dog that is the constant companion of their newly "acquired" spotted pony is actually the animal's Seeing-Eye dog, they turn them both loose in the Badlands.
Sod Houses on the Great Plains
Title | Sod Houses on the Great Plains PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Tells how settlers on the treeless plains built houses from the prairie sod itself.
Once We Had a Horse
Title | Once We Had a Horse PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Montana |
ISBN | 9780823412419 |
Several children who live on a ranch in Montana spend the summer playing with a gentle old horse which had been left in their yard.
The Football Girl
Title | The Football Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Thatcher Heldring |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2017-04-04 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0375987142 |
For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book
Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf
Title | Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf PDF eBook |
Author | Glen Rounds |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Swine |
ISBN | 9780440830979 |
Relates the adventures of three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortunes and how they deal with the big bad wolf.
The Cowboy Trade
Title | The Cowboy Trade PDF eBook |
Author | Glen Rounds |
Publisher | Holiday House |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780823410835 |
For more than a hundred years traveling Wild West shows and Western films have drawn enthusiastic crowds in all parts of the world, and playing cowboy is a popular pastime of young boys everywhere. Even now countless millions of folk, both young and old, squat nightly in front of their television sets, breathlessly following the latest adventures of their favorite Western heroes.